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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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I just purchased an African Grey Timneh parrot. He is 2yrs old and for the first few days was non-talkative, until now. He /she must have been kept in a home office, I imagine, because it speaks no human language but, Boy OH Boy! does it ever chatter "OFFICE MACHINE"...lol....it comes out with, realistic, Fax Machine sounds, Telephone Rings, and Door bell...but NO LANGUAGE of any kind...If I didn't find it amusing I would be sad for the little thing...Does anyone else have a similar situation?..Since the bird is talkative already does this must reflect it's lack of stress? ...I keep it in the family room now(a busy one) so will he learn a lot of words from contact with us...yes/no..?....charlie
 
When I got my TAG, he had been kept alone in a small cage in a back room for years. He was around 5 y/o when I got him. I was told he could talk very well.

I had him for about a month before he uttered a single word. He said "Hello" in a woman's voice and it scared the bejesus out of me. I thought someone had entered the room it was so lifelike.

He learned "Good Morning" in 4 days. I would walk in and say it to him several times. On the 5th day I didn't say it and he said it. He has tons of words and phrases that just crack me up including:
"pauseNo , pause, No, pause, Don't Bite, pause, I said no."
That is also in a woman's voice. He started saying this after I'd had him for over a year. I NEVER said these words to him and I live alone so he didn't hear these words the whole time I've owned yet he still remembered them.

He also does tons and tons of sounds including an alarm, a squeaky door and a goose.

He was never tame for me and I can't handle him at all. Finally I bought a female and set them up to breed. The weirdest thing is that since I bought the female he doesn't talk. He only says the occasional "night, night birds" when I go to turn the lights out for the night. I do miss his talking but maybe he's learning to be a bird now. Who knows?

So don't give up on your bird. It will surprise you and I bet it will talk given time.

Karen
 
Well...I tell ya....This bird communicates now like crazy...all new words that we,my family, talks to him and that he just hears around the kitchen table. I have him hanging in the living room and he seems happy....He is still a bit of a screamer when you pick him up or open the cage but he still he doesn't bite justs threatens too....He has, unfortunately, started to pick up a partial cry of my Sun Conure, who screams like crazy(spoiled rotten)...I find this TAG a great bird, smart as a whip......The dogs and cats don't seem to think anything at all of him. The dogs do walk over and look up at the cage when the parrot hits a frequency that they are sensitive to..funny eh.......charlie
 
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